Linux Command Line Contracts with Work from Home Options

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 399 450
Rank change year-on-year +78 +51 -29
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 28 65 160
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.82% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 48 99
10th Percentile £393 £428 £363
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.85%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £669
90th Percentile £719 £676 £734
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +4.76%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,279 7,879 13,949
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.74% 31.54% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,926 5,555 9,981
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £433 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £819 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 150 226
10th Percentile £16.03 £19.00 £13.19
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.75 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +17.98% +28.99%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +3.97%

Linux Command Line
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Command Line trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Command Line.

Linux Command Line daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Linux Command Line daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Command Line.

Linux Command Line hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
2 3 (10.71%) WhatsApp
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Storage
3 2 (7.14%) Route 53
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.57%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) BGP
1 3 (10.71%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (10.71%) IOS XR
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.71%) Redis
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.71%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
1 5 (17.86%) GitLab
2 4 (14.29%) Gradle
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (10.71%) Artifactory
4 2 (7.14%) Pylint
4 2 (7.14%) Selenium
5 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.57%) gulp
5 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.57%) Maven
5 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.57%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Senior
3 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Python Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Applications Support
5 4 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) DBA
6 3 (10.71%) Developer
6 3 (10.71%) JIRA Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior DBA
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Sybase DBA
6 3 (10.71%) Sybase DBA
7 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) REST
2 7 (25.00%) YAML
3 4 (14.29%) pytest
4 3 (10.71%) Django
4 3 (10.71%) JSON
4 3 (10.71%) Kafka
4 3 (10.71%) React
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 3 (10.71%) Spring
4 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.71%) Web Services
4 3 (10.71%) YANG
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 2 (7.14%) WebSockets
6 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
6 1 (3.57%) CSS
6 1 (3.57%) gRPC
6 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
1 3 (10.71%) Replication
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (92.86%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Unix
4 2 (7.14%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (3.57%) Android
5 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.57%) Windows
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 9 (32.14%) DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) SDLC
4 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (21.43%) Agile
5 6 (21.43%) Open Source
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.86%) OO
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.29%) ITIL
7 4 (14.29%) Microservices
7 4 (14.29%) Observability
8 3 (10.71%) BDD
8 3 (10.71%) Network Management
8 3 (10.71%) OOD
8 3 (10.71%) Scrum
8 3 (10.71%) Service Management
8 3 (10.71%) TDD
8 3 (10.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 5 (17.86%) Bash
6 4 (14.29%) Perl
7 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
7 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
8 2 (7.14%) Go
8 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.57%) C#
9 1 (3.57%) Groovy
9 1 (3.57%) PHP
9 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) Ceph
3 2 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
3 2 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Ansible
2 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.00%) Grafana
3 7 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (17.86%) Terraform
5 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
6 2 (7.14%) Pacemaker
6 2 (7.14%) Podman
6 2 (7.14%) Puppet
6 2 (7.14%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
2 4 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) SAP
3 3 (10.71%) Sybase
3 3 (10.71%) TOWER Software
4 2 (7.14%) Qualys
4 2 (7.14%) SaltStack
4 2 (7.14%) Sun
5 1 (3.57%) EMC